Fla. Jury Awards $16 Million in Brain Surgery Malpractice Case

December 27, 2006

  • January 2, 2007 at 5:01 am
    Monica Soltes says:
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    It is difficult to place a pricetag on one\’s life or it\’s quality.
    For those of us with brain tumors even benign one\’s, our quality of life is at stake. Any tumor potentially may become fatal if left unattended.
    There is a risk to every procedure performed, there are no guarantees of success. Ms. Landis weighed her options and accepted them.
    The body is a very delicate instrument.
    This is a very unfortunate predicament.

  • February 7, 2007 at 3:23 am
    Fred Horelick says:
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    What was truly unfortunate was the way that the doctors at UM mishandled Ms. Landis care after she decided to have brain surgery. That Ms. Landis decided to have the surgery and that brain surgery has inherent risks do not absolve a neurosurgeon from acting with reasonable care once the surgery is over. The fact that brain surgery has so many post-surgical risks cries out for a physician to closely monitor a patient, not discontinue her anti-clotting medication when she is a hemophiliac or send her home into the care of her 85 year old mother without confirming a proper anti-seizure medication level before discharging her on day she believed she was in a bar in Texas. Risks are risks, but this was a case where the doctors screwed up.



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